Nance Farm Well -- De Soto TX
N 32° 36.803 W 096° 51.676
14S E 700677 N 3610446
The bucket well at the Otway B. Nance Farm in De Soto TX
Waymark Code: WMXRDX
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/19/2018
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Otway B. Nance purchased this homestead in the Peter's Colony settlement of Dallas County TX in 1856, and made his home here until he died in 1874.
"From the City of De Soto website: (
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"HISTORIC NANCE FARM
Historic Nance Farm is located at 1325 Greenbrook Drive, in the Mantlebrook Subdivision in DeSoto, Texas. Nance Farm was designated as a Recorded Texas Historical Landmark in 1976.
Otway Bird Nance (1805-1874) brought his wife and ten children from Illinois in 1851 and purchased 640 acres from Peter's Colony. Patriarch Otway B. Nance built the milking barn and the home that same year. He acquired more land, and within the next several years, the Nance Farm property had doubled in size.
The property was owned and occupied by the Nance Family until the 1950s. Over the next two decades the surrounding land was subdivided into residential lots. In 1975 the City of DeSoto purchased the property and utilized it as a community center. The property was sold back into private ownership in 1981, but was later in jeopardy of foreclosure. By the time the City of DeSoto again purchased Nance Farm in 2007, the size of the property had been reduced to just over two (2) acres.
Though the main house was originally built as a two-story home with a Greek Revival façade, it now reflects a Victorian style with a full-length front porch. The transformation from Greek Revival to Victorian occurred sometime prior to 1883.
The current kitchen and dining room were added to the home as an attached wing; however, it was common practice in the 1850’s to have a detached kitchen and this may have been the case with the Nance Farm house when it was first constructed.
Accessory structures include a windmill, windmill well, bucket well, curing shed, milking barn, and tank house. . . ."